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Descentralização e resultados na saúde infantil no Brasil Artigo agraciado com Menção Honrosa no X Prêmio SOF de Monografias da Secretaria de Orçamento Federal, Ministério do Planejamento, Desenvolvimento e Gestão. O autor agradece os valiosos comentários e sugestões de Valdemar Neto, Edinaldo Tebaldi, Jordano Rocha, Fabrício Linhares, Flávio Ataliba, dos participantes do 45º Encontro Nacional de Economia - ANPEC, do parecerista anônimo da revista Estudos Econômicos e em especial do Editor Marcos Yamada Nakaguma. Erros e omissões são de exclusiva responsabilidade do autor.

Abstract

Over the past decade, Brazil experienced a sharp increase in the decentralization of public health services. Given the possibility of heterogeneous responses and distributional consequences, it was sought to verify the general and regional effects of the decentralization of public health services on child health outcomes across Brazilian states during the period 2000-2013. For this, I constructed a measure of fiscal decentralization of the health sector does not explored in national literature and the two-way fixed effects model approach was applied with state-specific trends and robust standard errors. The results showed that the fiscal decentralization of actions and public health services had, during the period in analysis, a substantial statistically impact on reducing the infant and child mortality rates in Brazil. However, the effects of decentralization are different given the regional development level, with superior impacts in more developed regions (South region, -0.598). Meanwhile, the institutional capacity of health sector management of states and municipalities in the Northern region of Brazil (null effect) needs to be reexamined.

Keywords:
Decentralization; Child health; Regional development; Brazil

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